Category: Recommended

Title: Ill Will Author: Dan Chaon Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub.Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Psychological thriller, Literary Suspense, Crime, Horror, Contemporary You know that chill you get when you walk into shadow? That is this book. A cold dark truth emerges from beneath this twisted murder tale as the timeline of a man’s…

Title: Fatal Option Author: Chris Beakey Publisher: Post Hill Press Pub. Date: 21 February 2017 Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Recommended, Fiction Hang on to your seats, people! This is a fast-paced wild ride from the very first page. It would be difficult to unfold the plot without giving some serious spoilers, which I do not…

Title: Finishing School- The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can’t Seem to Get Done Publisher: TarcherPerigee Pub. Date: 10 January 2017 Genre: How-To, Writing Books, Philosophy, Self-Help This might be just another of the thousands of books that try to help authors finish their manuscripts, but maybe it is a book that…

Title: All Our Wrong Todays Author: Elan Mastai Publisher: Dutton Pub. Date: 7 February 2017 Genre: Science Fiction, recommended This is the what-if-I-could-go-back-and-fix-it story you probably never imagined. It is also time travel as raw as the naked heart–especially once it goes soooo wrong. The characters are people who live on the page,…

Title: The Girl From Venice Author: Martin Cruz Smith Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub Date: 18 October 2016 Genre: Historical Thriller, Venice, WW2, Romantic *Recommended What a lovely world to escape into for a couple of rainy afternoons! Venice during WW2 is fertile ground for romance and other thrilling underworldly goings-on and Martin…

Title: Dodgers Author: Bill Beverly Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 5 April, 2016 Genre: Gritty, Contemporary, Urban Fiction, Adventure, Coming-of-age This book came out in April and it has been sitting on my shelf since before then because I wasn’t sure I was going to like it enough to add to the conversation about it….

Title: Anna and the Swallow Man Author: Gavriel Savit Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 January 2016 Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, War Anna is a young girl in 1939 Poland when the Germans come and take away her father. Left alone to fend for herself, she falls into the care of the Swallow Man, who…

Title: The Last Days of Night Author: Graham Moore Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 16 August 2016 Genre: Historical fiction. Mystery, Drama The billion dollar lawsuit and epic battle between the powerful corporations of Westinghouse and Edison to capture the nation’s electrical future seems to hinge on a beautiful liar, the unreliable ramblings of…

Title: Wipe Author: Joseph Turkot Publisher: Indie Pub. Date: 5 August, 2014 Genre: YA, Post-Apoc, Spec Fic This review is for the omnibus – parts 1-5, the complete series. Long after the world-as-we-know-it ended, civilization has pooled into communities held together by dogma of one sort or another. In Acadia, Maze and Wills…

Title: Kids of Appetite Author: David Arnold Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 20 September, 2016 Genre: YA, urban fiction, adventure, contemporary, recommended As the police interrogate several witnesses, the incredible story unfolds. After Vic suffers one too many losses, he becomes lost himself. Luckily, he is found by Mad and her group…

Title: The Far Empty Author: J. Todd Scott Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Pub. Date: 7 June 2016 Genre: Contemporary Western Crime Fiction, thriller Sheriff Ross is a powerful man. There is no doubt in the minds of his deputies, the citizens of border-town Murfee, Texas, and the rest of the country. A hero. But…

Title: The Never-Open Desert Diner Author::James Anderson Publisher: Crown Publication Date: 22 March, 2016 In the Utah desert, there is a highway that ends in a magical bit of nowhere surrounded by mesa and unforgiving wastes. It is here, from one isolated end of Route 117 to the other, that Ben Jones delivers strange…